Manston is a poor investment

No quarter? Manston's impending doom

Infratil executive Tim Brown would not comment directly on one analyst's suggestion that Infratil's other under-performing European airports could be next [to be sold] but said it was hard to run with a loss on a low-return asset in the current environment. Around 75% of Infratil's investments, including Wellington Airport and TrustPower, were performing well, Brown said. "You have to say to yourself, can you have 25% of the business not generating a return? In this type of environment you can't."

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